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Big Bird in China (1983)
Directed by Jon Stone
“A 75 Minute Musical Adventure”
Adventure, TV Movie, Comedy, Family · 1h 15m
Big Bird and his Sesame Street companion, Barkley, the big, fluffy dog, travel across China in search of the legendary Feng Huang, the Phoenix Bird. Along the way they visit with Chinese schoolchildren, watch a Tai Ji demonstration, learn some Chinese words and songs, and meet the mischievous Monkey King.
Cast
Caroll Spinney
Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
Brian Muehl
Barkley (voice)
Lianzi Ouyang
Xiao Foo (as Lien-Tze Quyang)
Frank Oz
Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
Jerry Nelson
Two-Headed Monster (voice)
Richard Hunt
Two-Headed Monster (voice)
Martin P. Robinson
Telly Monster (voice)
Jim Henson
Ernie (voice)
Cheryl Blaylock
Additional Muppet Performer (voice) (as Cheryl Blalock)
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Edward G. Christie
Additional Muppet Performer (voice) (as Ed Christie)
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Arabella Hong
The Shopkeeper
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Ziu Ping Hua
The Storyteller
Crew
- Director
- Jon Stone
- Writer
- Jon Stone, Joseph A. Bailey
- Director of Photography
- Frank V. Phillips
- Original Music Composer
- Dick Lieb
- Editor
- Ken Gutstein
- Producer
- Kuo Bao-Xiang, Xu Ja-Cha, David Liu
Details
- Release date
- 1983-05-29
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Adventure, TV Movie, Comedy, Family
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Mandarin
- Countries
- China, United States of America
- Production
- CCTV, Children's Television Workshop